The Only Country That Wins No Matter How This War Ends Prof Jiang Xueqin Analysis

And what is happening right now in the Middle East is not a war about nuclear weapons. It is not a war about terrorism. It is not even a war about Israel's security. Those are the costumes this war is wearing. They bombed nuclear sites, missile facilities, military infrastructure. The scale of it was twice the firepower of shock and awe in Iraq in 2003. Twice. And yet here we are more than a month later and the Iranian regime has not collapsed. Ask yourself a simple question. Who benefits? Not emotionally. Not ideologically. Who benefits structurally, financially, strategically? When you ask that question with cold, clear eyes, the answer points in one direction and one direction only. Let me show you exactly how, layer by layer, because this is not simple and anyone who tells you it is simple is either lying to you or has not done the homework. The first layer is energy. China is the world's largest importer of oil. For decades, the Gulf states recycled their oil profits, their petrodollars, back into American treasury bonds, American stocks, American real estate. This is what kept the American financial machine running. This war, which was supposed to demonstrate American power, is actually accelerating the erosion of the financial foundation of American power. The third layer is technology and manufacturing. The United Nations Secretary General condemned the strikes. Dozens of countries condemned the strikes. The International Atomic Energy Agency said there was no evidence of an organized nuclear weapons program at the time the war began. In the eyes of the global south, in Africa, in Southeast Asia, in Latin America, in South Asia, in the Muslim world, America has confirmed every suspicion, every fear, every accusation that has been building for decades. China, meanwhile, positioned itself as the voice of restraint, the voice of dialogue, the voice of multilateralism. China is not doing this because it is moral. China is doing this because it is strategically brilliant. Every time America bombs a country in defiance of international law, China's model of non-interference looks more attractive to the developing world. And the developing world is where the future is being built. Now, I want to be honest with you because I am not here to sell you a simple story where China is the hero and America is the villain. History does not work that way. China has its own profound vulnerabilities. The question that matters most is for ordinary people everywhere who are watching this war unfold and trying to make sense of it. The question is, when this war ends, and it will end, because all wars end, what world will we have built? If Iran is bombed back by decades, its infrastructure shattered, its people traumatized, but its revolutionary ideology now spreading to every young Muslim who watched a girl's school get bombed on live television, was it a defeat for Iran's idea?